Denis McQuail, Peter Golding, Els de Bens (eds.): Communication Theory and Research: An EJC Anthology (2005)
Filed under journal | Tags: · cyberfeminism, infotainment, internet, journalism, mass media, propaganda, television
This exciting collection of papers represents some of the finest communications research published during the last decade. To mark the 20th anniversary of the European Journal of Communication, a leading international journal, the editors have selected 21 papers, all of which make significant and valuable interventions in the field of media and communications.
The volume is prefaced with an introduction by the editors and will be a central research text for scholars in this field.
Publisher SAGE, 2005
ISBN 1412918332, 9781412918336
306 pages
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Comment (1)Angharad N. Valdivia (ed.): A Companion to Media Studies (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · advertising, audience, cultural studies, feminism, gender, intellectual property, mass media, media studies, politics, popular culture, pornography, television, theory
A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars to provide an overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields.
* Brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars in the most comprehensive collection on media studies to date.
* Tackles a variety of central concepts and controversies, organized into six areas of study: foundations, production, media content, media audiences, effects, and futures.
* Provides an accessible point of entry into this expansive and interdisciplinary field.
* Includes the writings of renowned media scholars, including McQuail, Schiller, Gallagher, Wartella, and Bryant.
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, 2005
ISBN 1405141743, 9781405141741
590 pages
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Comment (0)Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, Jay Ruby (eds.): Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television (1991)
Filed under book | Tags: · cinema, docudrama, documentary film, film, mass media, photography, privacy, television
This pathbreaking collection of thirteen original essays examines the moral rights of the subjects of documentary film, photography, and television. Image makers–photographers and filmmakers–are coming under increasing criticism for presenting images of people that are considered intrusive and embarrassing to the subject. Portraying subjects in a “false light,” appropriating their images, and failing to secure “informed consent” are all practices that intensify the debate between advocates of the right to privacy and the public’s right to know. Discussing these questions from a variety of perspectives, the authors here explore such issues as informed consent, the “right” of individuals and minority groups to be represented fairly and accurately, the right of individuals to profit from their own image, and the peculiar moral obligations of minorities who image themselves and the producers of autobiographical documentaries. The book includes a series of provocative case studies on: the documentaries of Frederick Wiseman, particularly Titicut Follies ; British documentaries of the 1930s; the libel suit of General Westmoreland against CBS News; the film Witness and its portrayal of the Amish; the film The Gods Must be Crazy and its portrayal of the San people of southern Africa; and the treatment of Arabs and gays on television. The first book to explore the moral issues peculiar to the production of visual images, Image Ethics will interest a wide range of general readers and students and specialists in film and television production, photography, communications, media, and the social sciences.
Publisher Oxford University Press US, 1991
ISBN 0195067800, 9780195067804
400 pages
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